Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

Through trade, piracy, ambassadorial exchanges, friendship, and marriage, the Muslim was the most frequently encountered non-Christian from the Elizabethan until the early Stuart periods. Analyzing hitherto unexamined sources -- court depositions, English captives' memoirs, Arabic chronicles, North African histories, and writings by Englishmen who lived in trading centers from Morocco to Egypt -- Nabil Matar presents new research about the interaction between English society and Muslims, highlighting the role played in such interactions by English conceptions of the native peoples of the New World.